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...WILDER SHORES OF LOVE (332 pp.) -Lesley Blanch-Simon & Schuster...
...word, "fulfillment" has had quite rise in recent years. It appears in publishing ("circulation fulfillment"), socialism ("plan fulfillment"), psychoanalysis ("wish fulfillment"), but most of all as applied to modern woman, who always wants to be fulfilled. The latest application is made by British Author-Journalist Lesley Blanch, who wonders out loud how modern woman can be fulfilled "as a woman, [without] seeking escape from her own nature...
...Author Blanch is no pale sociologist; a onetime staffer on the British Vogue, she has an interest in career-woman feminism and an addiction to headlong prose. The value of The Wilder Shores of Love is not in its arguments and conclusions, but in the case histories it presents of four 19th century women who turned their backs on the progressive West and found salvation in the unemancipated East. All four of them, says Author Blanch, "seemed to sense in ... passivity far larger opportunities of self-expression." The four...
...Jesus Christ and the belief that the Christ's Second Coming had already occurred-in the form of the Word, revealed to Emanuel Swedenborg. The afterlife and spirit world were as real to the new Swedenborg as his native Stockholm. He made Sweden's Queen Louisa Ulrica blanch with a secret message from her deceased brother, and he titillated his contemporaries with reports of new marriages made in heaven between noted persons long dead...
Three generations of Australians have been delighted and appalled by the salty character of a tiny, terrible-tempered politician whose rallying cry, "What the blithering blazes!", once tinkled the glass chandeliers of Versailles, made Lloyd George blanch, Woodrow Wilson freeze, and Clemenceau laugh. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was born a Welshman, but ten years as a knockabout laborer in Australia had made him as indigenous as a kangaroo. When he became Australia's World War I Prime Minister, the Anzacs draped a big slouch hat around his pint-sized head, dubbed him "Little Digger...